Cynthia Santana is a former American television news reporter and anchor.

Early life and education

She was born and raised along the Arizona-Mexico border, Santana earned a bachelor's degree from

Northern Arizona University Northern Arizona University (NAU) is a public research university based in Flagstaff, Arizona. It was founded in 1899 as the final public university established in the Arizona Territory, 13 years before Arizona was admitted as the 48th state. ...

in journalism and broadcast production in 1993.

Professional career

Santana began her professional career in radio, and then shifted to television, taking a job at

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, where she worked from 1992 until September 1993. Santana then worked as a weekday news anchor at

KOLD-TV KOLD-TV (channel 13) is a television station in Tucson, Arizona, United States, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by Gray Television, which provides certain services to Fox affiliate KMSB (channel 11) and MyNetworkTV affiliate KTTU (channel 18 ...

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from 1993 until 1996. From 1996 until October 2001, Santana was a weekend anchor and primary weekday fill-in anchor at

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-TV in

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. In January 2002, Santana joined

WBBM-TV WBBM-TV (channel 2) is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, airing programming from the CBS network. Owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division, the station maintains studios on West Washington S ...

in Chicago as the station's weekend co-anchor. In June 2003, Santana resigned from WBBM. In 2004, Santana became a producer, writer and narrator for Morgan Howard Productions, a visual communications company in

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owned by her husband. She is the mother of Roan Abraham Howard, who currently attends Stanford University. Santana currently works as the Communications Manager at the Seattle Office of Labor Standards.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Santana, Cynthia Living people Television anchors from Chicago American television reporters and correspondents Northern Arizona University alumni Year of birth uncertain People from Kirkland, Washington Year of birth missing (living people)